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WD My Passport Wireless 2TB will not charge

I lost the original charger cord a while back, and I stopped using it for about a month. Last night I plugged it into my SAMSUNG FAST CHARGE charger, which will charge my Galaxy Note 4 in about an hour and a half. When I got up this morning, it had gone from 17% to 37%. It had been charging for about 9 hours. Is there a solution to this? All help is appreciated!

Maybe this charger is too powerfull. Can you try another one with somewhere 2 Watt injection.

That fixed it! I kinda feel silly for not doing that in the first place lol. Thanks Joerg_A

You really should use the proper charger for any device. They are all different, and the wrong charger can ruin a device.

You say you lost the CORD, well the MPW uses a standard USB3 cord taken from any new hard drive today. The charger for the MPW is rated at 5V DC and 2 amps output. This is kind of standard on many tablets today…

Why not look into a charger that figures out the requirement for a device and you can just plug lots of things in, in most cases. I suggest one from Anker found at Amazon. Look for ones that have PowerIQ. Lots of price ranges.

I’ll sure look into that! Thanks abunch!

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